Re: [libreoffice-users] Weird situation with LO Writer

Hello,

True, I don't insert the images as pictures like you would expect, but I
didn't think that would make a difference since all the images are still
coming from a local disk, so therefore LO knows the format very well and
should be able to preserve it.

Why am I using frames with images as backgrounds instead of pictures? I
don't know really. I needed an image to accompany a chunk of text, this
seemed like a good idea at the time. It's kinda too late to change it now,
there are already over a hundred such frames... I might try to change it at
some later point but for now I'd like to stick with what I have.

I did not try inserting images any other way so I don't know how it would
behave. (I also don't understand what do you mean by "extending the
palette".) I did however do a little experiment. Since ODTs are just ZIP
archives, I opened my document with an archiver tool and extracted the
contents to a temporary directory. Then I converted all the PNGs to JPGs
with the same name, updated the relevant index files accordingly
(content.xml, META-INF/manifest.xml), and archived it back as ZIP. Then I
renamed the ZIP to ODT and tried opening it in Writer, and voila, it
worked! All the images are still there and visible, I didn't see any
problems. I then saved it under a different name and checked the resulting
ODT, all the stored images were still in JPEG format. So I guess this kinda
solves my problem for now, although I would still like to know how and why
it happened to begin with. I need to do more editing on the document which
means a lot more saving, so I'll keep an eye on what LO does with these
JPEGs in the future.





On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 10:55 PM, Regina Henschel <rb.henschel@t-online.de>wrote:

> Hi Ra,
>
> Ra schrieb:
>
>  I never insert images as pictures. The JPEG images are only ever used as
> > backgrounds for frames. I also never open the JPEGs in any picture editing
> > application and copypaste from there, the images are only ever used as
> > files from disk.
> >
> > What I'm doing is precisely this:
> >
> > File > Insert > Frame... > OK
> >
> >
> > Then
> >
> > [right click on the frame created] > Frame... > Background > As: Graphic >
> > Browse... > [select the JPEG file from disk] > Type: Area > OK
>
> I think, that is the point. You do not insert the image directly, but use
> it as background image.
>
> If you insert the image directly, it should stay in JPEG format.
>
> Have you tried, whether other ways to make it a background (e.g. extending
> the palette) results in png too?
>
> Why do you try to make it a background of the frame?
>
> Kind regards
> Regina
>
>
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